It is named after its student Jack Cornwell, one of the youngest recipients of the Victoria Cross.
Jack Cornwell, who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Jutland, was a pupil at the school.
On 29 July 1916, when Cornwell's body was exhumed and carried by gun carriage from East Ham Town Hall to Manor Park Cemetery, boys from Walton Road School joined the procession.
[2] At the school scholars and staff erected a plaque in his memory which was unveiled by Lady Jellicoe, wife of First Sea Lord Admiral J.
[1] The school closed twelve years later and was demolished in 1969.